Full Inventory truck loading at stations?

[Sylfahl]

Still early game. I've been using a tractor to bring coal to my power plant, and my loading station only loads about 100-ish coal despite having hundreds (and more with bottlenecked conveyor belts) of coal sitting at the mines.

Is there a way to load more (hopefully the full inventory)?

[Skore87]

There's three inputs to the truck station. One is for fuel and the other two inputs (and outputs) are for product you want transferred. Make sure you're using the right one :)

[Kage Goomba]

Also keep in mind that your slowest belt is going to be a bottle neck itself.
Make sure you have buffers (cargo containers) to account for the trip delay.

[Sylfahl]

Originally posted by Skore87:

There's three inputs to the truck station. One is for fuel and the other two inputs (and outputs) are for product you want transferred. Make sure you're using the right one :)

Already done, most of my coal production goes in the transfer inputs x.x

[Sylfahl]

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

Also keep in mind that your slowest belt is going to be a bottle neck itself.
Make sure you have buffers (cargo containers) to account for the trip delay.

Planned for that as well! The issue real is that my truck station contains, for instance, 500 coal but only loads in like 100.

[HandyVac]

Loading from the station into the tractor isn't instant, so perhaps your tractor is driving off before it's had time to fill very much?

Try clicking on the yellow "wait" node of your truck's path and changing the duration to 30 seconds or so.

[Sonic Titan]

Originally posted by HandyVac:

Loading from the station into the tractor isn't instant, so perhaps your tractor is driving off before it's had time to fill very much?

Try clicking on the yellow "wait" node of your truck's path and changing the duration to 30 seconds or so.

This is very likely what is happening. Unlike trains, you can't tell a tractor/truck to "wait until full", but you can (sometimes) effectively achieve that by adjusting the wait timer at the station's load node.

[Veeshan]

I've also observed that the amount of time you wait when setting the route isn't relevant to the eventual wait time, it seems to set some default time. However, this has always been plenty fast for me.